Beginner Guitar Theory

Time signatures, note values, scales, and chord construction are covered, along with practical examples applied to playing the guitar.

Guitar technique development involves setting specific goals, adjusting them as needed, and balancing new material with revision of past skills.

Electronic tuners accurately indicate sharp or flat notes for precise string tuning.

Traditional notation and tablature methods for reading music are covered, with a focus on practical applications for guitarists.

Introduces guitar tablature notation, illustrating note positions on the fretboard.

Introduces the structure and notation of the left hand's fingers.

The musical alphabet, staff, clefs, and ledger lines are covered.

Recognize notes on the treble staff and develop essential music reading skills.

Introduces the open strings of a guitar as E, B, G, D, A, and E, from highest pitched to lowest.

Introduces fundamental guitar concepts, covering open position notes, intervals, and patterns.

Note values, rests, and bar lines are introduced, covering the fundamental structures of music.

Time signatures and their role in determining beats per bar and note values are covered.

Introduces fundamental concepts of music notation, covering quarter, half, and whole rests, as well as eighth notes and rests.

Recognizes the value of dotted notes and introduces strategies for effective counting.

Ties connect identical pitches, altering note length.

Lead-in notes, first and second endings, and their impact on song structure are covered.

Legato techniques such as slurs, hammer-ons, and pull-offs are explained and applied to improve guitar playing.

Introduces principles of dynamic control, including understanding and applying varying volume levels to add expression and emotion to music.

Covers the techniques for controlling volume and adding expression through dynamics and accents, including crescendo and diminuendo.

Tempo markings such as adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, and presto are covered.

Tempo changes explored through recognition and execution of markings such as accelerando, rallentando, ritenuto, and a tempo.

Introduces the fundamentals of guitar notation, covering all note types including sharps and flats.

Tones and semitones on guitar are covered, including sharp and flat notation and reading and playing chromatic scales.

Introduces the major scale's structure and sound fundamentals of music theory.

Introduces the concept of an octave, a range of 8 notes in a major scale, and explains scale degree identification.

Covers the C major scale in open position and its applications for playing melodies.

Builds major scales on any note by applying a memorized pattern for expanded musical capabilities.

The G major scale pattern is introduced, highlighting its distinctive properties and demonstrating how it can be applied to any note.

The F major scale features a flatted 4th degree, as part of its distinctive pattern.

Constructs major scales on any chromatic note, playing them in various positions.

Mastering key signatures, understanding music composition, and notation principles.

Major scales are covered across all keys, enabling reading music, playing melodies with confidence, and improvising with ease.

Transposes melodies and songs into different keys using various techniques.

The chromatic scale and its significance in music theory are examined.

Introduces the concept of enharmonic notes and transposition techniques for shifting melodies across different keys.

Musical intervals are defined by melodic and harmonic distances measured in semitones and tones.

Introduces naming conventions for musical intervals, covering types such as minor and augmented seconds, thirds, and others.

Interval Types Explains the five basic types of intervals: Perfect, Major, Minor, Augmented, and Diminished, including their relationships.

Introduces the concept of interval distance, covering measurements in semitones for common intervals up to an octave.

Perfectly aligns unison intervals to harmonize notes and create rich sound textures.

Introduces techniques for recognizing and replicating musical intervals through auditory training.

Covers chord construction, triads, and chord formulas, with examples of building and playing a C major chord.

Covers various fingering techniques for C chords, including alternative note orders and doublings to produce distinct sonic results.

Rhythm notation is introduced as a guitar-specific system for indicating strumming chords.

Introduces formula construction for chords, covering triads, augmented, and diminished forms with major and minor intervals.

Introduces the roles of double sharps and double flats in clarifying interval spellings and enhancing comprehension of enharmonic notes.

Builds skills in creating harmonies and chords on every scale degree for guitar.

The Major Key Triad Pattern is introduced, along with techniques for transposing chords using roman numerals.

Builds chords for all major keys by constructing 13 scales.

Scale tones and chord construction are explored in relation to harmony and music theory.

Introduces fundamental chord progressions and their transposition techniques.

Introduces fundamental chord shapes for major, minor, and diminished chords, emphasizing memorization of essential forms.

Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales are introduced, covering their fundamental properties.

Minor scales are covered across all 12 tones, with formulas and patterns explained to facilitate mastery.

Covers the concept of relative keys and their relationship to major scales and natural minor scales, including harmonic and melodic variations.

Introduces natural minor scales as foundation for finding relative minor keys and creating triads.

Covers the E natural minor scale tone chords and their relationships to G major.

Transposes music written in minor keys to various keys, covering fundamental concepts and practical applications.

Covers the construction of minor key chords using notes from various minor scales and altered chord qualities.

The melodic minor scale's raised 6th degree is applied to determine chord types and demonstrated in a well-known song.

Triplets cover rhythmic patterns and applications in blues and jazz styles.

Ties notes together to develop swing rhythms through different musical notations.

Introduces sixteenth-note rhythm and its practical applications in guitar technique.

Recognizes and applies simple and compound time signatures, covering six-eight and twelve-eight time.

Introduces music notation basics, covering accidentals, dynamics, intervals, melody, rhythm, and tempo.